Wednesday, May 30, 2012

The 2012 Stanley Cup Finals (NY Times)


 New Jersey goalie Martin Brodeur will be going for his fourth Stanley Cup Championship versus the Los Angeles Kings. 


Our analysis was picked up by the New York Times.  Here's an excerpt:

Over the past 32 years, the team with a better goals-against average has won 18 Stanley Cups (56.3 percent). But since the high-scoring period of the mid-80’s to the mid-90’s ended – the team with the better goals-against average has been even more dominant: 4-1 over the last five years, 7-3 over the last 10, and 12-6 over the last 18 years.

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Read more here:


http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/keeping-score-looking-at-history-to-predict-a-champion/

Note: For purposes of this blog, there is no definitive "quant fact" prediction for this year's Stanley Cup Finals.